You look at a movie trailer and think," I have that font, "
You know you are a geek when you set up an automatic rerouting of your E mail to your pager.
You are a geek when you get a sudden attacks of bittersweet nostalgic feelings when thinking about your
Long-lost old commodore 64, sinclair ZX-81 TRS-80 (or whatever hardware you were raised on ) and use large amounts of money / time trying to track onedown.
You are wearing ten year old spectacles, made out of steel.
You realise you never cook, eating only takeaway pizza.
You check your web access-page more than once aday.
You seriously consider devoting a web page to your computer, ( not the brand mind you, but the actual computer it self )
You have more E-mail addressess than you do pair's of shoes.
You get depressed when you get less than 10 E-mails MSGS a day.
You already know what you want to write both master's paper's and your dissertation about, and you just Graduated from collage.
You can disscuss the philosophical and physical differences among the Tangos.
You plan to get two master degrees.
You start getting paranoid you aren't getting all your E-mail ( if you have sent me E-mail, and there seems to be no life from me, Try again, ) someone asks you what languages you know. and you reply upper slavic, French, Esperanto.
You are on the obscure software and computer Junk mailing lists.
You can explain how Apple Talk network works sleep and nightime are no longer irrevocably linked.
You arrange to get E-mail access no matter where you go WAIS is your life.
You walk past a con and people know who you are.
You have a definite philosphy of stacking wood for fires.
You hear the word " scuzzy " and the first thing you think of is not an adjective.
You went to high school where the only team with a winning record was the Chess team.
You rig up elaborate mechanisms to do really basic tasks.
You know about USENET cultures in groups you don't even read.
You put your pathfinder on the web.
You really get excited when people from countries with Limited access to the " net " are frequent vistors to your pages.
You don't hand in final papers unless they've been formatted on a desktop publishing program.
You write web pages about your web pages.
You favourite part of goeometry was proving theorems you've ever contemplated collecting graters.
You can remember your web address faster than your phone number.
You'll spend a long time customizing a computer you'll use for one day to the absolute pinacle of comfort, but you won't bother to spend two hours sewing a skirt, and wear the thing sarong style.
You do your best work after 11 P.M
You work in a building where you need a badge to move between floors.
You calculate the odds of getting one of the primo parking spaces in relation to your apartment, factoring in time, weather, seasons, Etc and are accurate 80 % of the time.
You can count the number of moderately good Hacker / computer dude, type movies on one hand, ( I promised not to froth at the mouth when i went to go see the net_____i failed miserably ).
You've bought one of those licence plate holder's on which you have your URL or E-mail address computer shopper.
You can track the geek gene through your family tree.
You froth at the mouth when someone talks about the " Information superhighway ".
You are a member of the usenet elite, invoked in posts in threads to which you have not posted.
You can sing Tom L ehrer's element song, not only is your computer in the centre of your room, it;s set up so as to allow netting from your couch, as well as your desk chair.
You arrange your jobs so you can telecommute.
You organise your CD'S so the tops all face face upward, alphabetically, or by record label ( if you do more than one of these, you are a Geek.
You spend a lot of time figuring out which of 100 Adult goldfish are the most fertile, have the strongest genes, and combined to produce the tiny little goldfish.
You carry 88 MB removable cartridge to and from work.
You can sing " smooth rider " from Grease 2 , if you do the hand movements while singing .
You should get out more.
You plot to get your Grandmother on E-mail.
You've ever contempleted devoting a web page to World News Now.
Edited by cheyenne 09, 27 September 2006 - 02:48 AM.